Naslov
Smart innovation capacity : the experience of Croatian large cities

Autori
Jurlina Alibegović, Dubravka ; Šagovac, Mislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Sustainable Growth in Small Open Economies / Munitlak Ivanović, Olja ; Ljumović, Isidora ; Bradić-Martinović, Aleksandra - Beograd : Institute of Economics Sciences, 2017, 101-103

ISBN
978-86-89465-35-8

Skup
Sustainable Growth in Small Open Economies

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 26.10.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Plenarno

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
smart city ; indicators ; innovation capacity ; large cities ; Croatia

Sažetak
The research studies show that key decisions in Croatian large cities (defined as urban settlements with more than 35, 000 inhabitants, as well as county centres) have mostly been made without much strategic consideration, being primarily reduced to setting ad hoc goals, activities and measures for their achievement. The objective of this research is to examine the implementation of the Smart City concept and to construct good indicators that describe local innovation capacity of Croatian large cities. To overcome the lack of strategic orientation in Croatian large cities, this research will follow the methodology developed by Giffinger’s et al. (2007) under the European Smart Cities project. We will identify the most important indicators for measuring development of economy at Croatian large cities’ level. Publicly available databases do not contain indicators for such measurement. The first task will be the collection of a set of data for 25 large cities from national and local sources for database formation. We will use web scraping techniques to collect publicly available data (data obtained from the Urban Audit database, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics data at city level, local database and interviews with experts in 25 Croatian cities, etc.) to measure indicators that represent the degree of development of economy at Croatian large cities’ level in several dimensions: innovation, entrepreneurship, economic image and trademarks, productivity, flexibility of labour market and international integration. Finally, we will use 19 indicators to compare 25 Croatian large cities and to assess their comparative advantage in a wider international context. Establishing a comparable dataset by cities through creation of indicators will give sources to analyse the role of Croatian large cities in smart specialization and make the comparison among Croatian large cities. We will provide an explanation for every city ranking by analysing the structure of our city-level data. All results will be available through a web application designed by authors of this research. We will also estimate city development index using principal component analysis, which will allow us to rank cities by the degree of economic development. The implications of this research, as a type of evaluation of local policies, should serve policy decision-makers in proposing decisions for the adoption of appropriate measures to promote smart, locally led development. This research will pave the way to future investigation through which we will measure five other dimensions of Smart City concept - smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment and smart living - aiming to emphasize the use of Smart City components for evidence-based monitoring of economic and social development of Croatian large cities. There are three main contributions of this paper. First, we will use web scraping techniques to collect, clean and harmonize annual data that are not usually available from national statistical institutions. Second, we will use the estimated index of economic development for every city. Third, our analysis and comparison of competitiveness of Croatian large cities will be made available through a web application that should encourage key decision-makers to use available information and apply it in preparation and implementation of their Smart City forward looking strategies.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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